The FCC turned aside a request from the Channel Islands...
The FCC turned aside a request from the Channel Islands Telephone Co. to be designated an ILEC, the Wireline Bureau said in an order dated Tuesday and circulated Wednesday. The company “has deployed only limited facilities to date and appears…
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to serve only one customer,” the Wireline Bureau said (http://xrl.us/bmm5wr). The company filed its petition in June 2008, and asked to be designated an ILEC for the Channel Islands, eight islands that run for about 160 miles along the California coast that comprise about 346 square miles. Verizon opposed Channel Island Telephone’s petition, saying its wireless division “was not discontinuing service to the populated portion of Santa Cruz Island as CIT claimed, and in fact had recently upgraded its wireless service to that area,” Wednesday’s order said. “Verizon also argued that the Commission ’should not act on CIT’s request until [California’s regulatory body] designates CIT as an incumbent LEC’ and CIT provides more information on the potential costs and benefits” of its proposal, Wednesday’s order said.